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The problem appears to be with the pl2303ta chipset. They claim they switched to the silabs cp2012 chipset because it can handle very high speeds and 'unusual' non-standard baud rates. After upgrading to windows 11, i find they have no driver availabl...  Read More

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Quality


They work great, i've bought several and they are reliable.


3 volts as advertised and worked like a charm to program an esp32 device.


I bought this cable to fix a router i had “bricked”, when a custom firmware install failed.


Apparently the chip included in this dtech cable does not support the inversion, or it is not documented.

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For the price it’s not a bad product, but verifying outputs before connecting it to a router that costs a few hundred dollars m...  Read More

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The cable includes a pl-2303 gc chip which may not offer inversion unlike alternative, more expensive products.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    serial, good, port, able and connected.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that there may be counterfeit products sold through this listing.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 196 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 8 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Some reviews of this product complained about this dtech usb to ttl serial cable not working with windows 11 andor getting a counterfeit device


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I cant really verify whether mine was counterfeit but it showed up as a 34prolific pl2303gc usb serial com port34 in device manager on windows 11 immediately without having to hunt for drivers


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Included with the cable was a small pamphlet serving as documentation as well as a pinoutschematic of whats inside the slightly oversized usb connector


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The documentation was a bit confusing as the serial connection voltage was shown as 5v but the cable was 3


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The specific part in my case was detected as a pl2303gc and was reported as real unlike some other cables i bought before this one


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It did show that in the manual but was not the colors i was expecting


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is a common feature of similar cables that they can invert the data signal


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Apparently the chip included in this dtech cable does not support the inversion or it is not documented

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